Here is our regular look around the NBA — links to stories worth reading and notes to check out (stuff that did not get its own post here at PBT) — done in bullet point form. Because bloggers love bullet points more than Americans like cheese… and we like cheese…

• The Orlando Magic have let go of television color analyst Matt Guokas. Which sucks. Trust me, as someone who watches a whole lot of League Pass and announcers from all across the NBA, he was a breath of fresh air because he was honest, smart and not a pure homer for his team. Why was he fired? Probably because he wasn’t enough of a homer. Ugh.

Not a Heat fan, but LeBron averaging 29 points per game on 51% shooting from the field (44.1% from 3), 7.3 rebounds, and 5.3 assists per game against arguably the best defensive team in the NBA (with an elite wing defender in Paul George and elite rim protector in Roy Hibbert) is individual domination.

The Heat as a whole didn’t dominate the Pacers – Wade and Bosh especially struggled – but LeBron did great.

That’s kinda what I meant, statistically he was amazing (and dominant in game 7), but to me I don’t see domination as just simply putting up numbers. In this series for the most part, LeBron had to almost do everything himself and yet the series was still very close. I’m a Laker fan and when I see Kobe put the team on his back and put up ridiculous scoring numbers like 40+ points and we lose, it’s not domination. That’s sort of what LeBron was until game 7 (although he contributed in basically every stat, not just points). Game 7 he was absolutely dominant, but overall in the series I wouldn’t call it domination as the series was so close. If he had put up the numbers he did and they lost the series people would unfairly criticize him. Overall I wouldn’t call it domination, but rather a testament to his perseverance through adversity. I have an enormous amount of respect for LeBron and hope he does as well in the future as he is now.

People always hate sustained success…especially when it involves the current best player. Can someone give me a real reason to hate on the heat? They made a childish comment about winning a lot of titles. Well, they won one and have been to the finals in all three years they have been together

Helin’s noun problem used to bug me but it’s as reliable as people complaining about the 110+ temps here in Phoenix. Malone giving Malone the assist. The best part is it’s never corrected. I have this mental image of Helin tapping out this post on an ipad and being like “I MIX MY NOUNS UP, IDGAF, DEAL WITH IT BRO’S”